<p>QuentMech - D1 came home as soon as she finished her finals. As she is no longer in Sydney, she is not able to view her exam, and they will not send it to her because it’s the school’s policy. Yes, all calculations were done by hand, no calculator. The study abroad dean (from her home school) made those comments because they have seen “anti-American” sentiment, and a semester in Sydney D1 has felt discriminated because she is a woman and an Eurasian, which was a complete surprise to her (I have posted of such sentiment in other threads). </p>
<p>D1 really doesn’t want to go down the route of blame game here because we don’t really know. But the paper she wrote had no comment on it when she got it back. In over a month, she tried to get together with the professor to see how she could have done better (not necessary to change the grade), but the professor would come up with excuses to not meet with her. She had no choice but to request for an informal review (regrade) of her paper because she was leaving the country. Before the final, she went to every review session. The TA said at the last session (in front of everyone) that she knew it cold, and she should do fine. She knew she didn’t get 100% right, but she knew how to do 80% of them. The professor could give her no credit for any miscalculations and give other students partial credit, we don’t know.</p>
<p>I did ask her why she only got a high 60 for the midterm. She said it was actually a high grade for the class. She said the professor didn’t teach a lot of concept in class, to purposely make it hard. For the final, she went over materials that weren’t cover in class because of previous experience.</p>
<p>I am running to a company dinner, so I typed this very quickly. I will check back later tonight. Thanks again, everyone.</p>